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Mission Critical: Managing Mobile WHITE PAPER MISSION CRITICAL: MANAGING MOBILE.. APPLICATIONS & CONTENT.. Moving beyond mobile device management to MAM and MCM is essential for delivering on the promise of mobility. Executive Summary Smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices have Table of Contents become embedded in enterprise processes, thanks to the consumerization of IT and a new generation of workers raised 2 The Mobile Landscape on mobile technologies. Consumer devices and bring-your- own-device (BYOD) programs are driving a new wave of 3 Mobile Device Management business process innovation, changing the way customers, employees and partners interact with organizations and 5 Mobile Application Management with each other. In fact, mobile devices and applications are catching up with — and in many cases surpassing — PCs in the 6 Content Management quality and functionality of their applications. 8 CDW: A Mobility Partner That Gets IT Mobility is changing the way health providers work with patients and the way retail organizations, banks, airlines and even car rental companies serve their customers. Increasingly, mobile applications and mobile-enabled business processes are giving enterprises a competitive edge. For example, any bank that doesn’t offer mobile banking today is at risk of losing customers to competitors. This trend is affecting government at all levels as well, giving federal, state and local agencies greater capabilities for delivering services to citizens and accomplishing their missions. SHARE THIS WHITE PAPER 2 MOBILE APPS & CONTENT MANAGEMENT Enterprises are struggling to keep up, not only with the end systems. Such capabilities are enhanced even further by demand for new mobile applications, but for ways of managing linking them to a mobile device’s camera and GPS capabilities, and securing valuable data and resources in the face of this which can be incorporated into fleet management systems for mobile explosion. tasks such as tracking drivers and updating route information. Just as quickly, the focus of enterprise management and Law enforcement officers and other government officials security is shifting from managing and protecting huge have found numerous ways to make use of the enhanced numbers of organization-issued and personal mobile devices portability, quick boot-up and access to back-end information to managing and securing the enterprise applications and from tablets and smartphones. For example, officers can information they hold, sometimes even in place of managing access arrest records and mug shots more easily during traffic the devices themselves. Any organization that wants to take stops. And a plain-clothes officer at a gun show can check this full advantage of mobile devices and applications must plan information more conspicuously with a tablet or a smartphone. on developing a strategy and deploying the technology to Healthcare workers also have expressed tremendous interest manage and protect its mobile devices, applications and data. in tablets. Doctors and nurses use tablets and smartphones to access patient record systems and imagery from the bedside The Mobile Landscape or to enter patient information directly into electronic medical The inundation of mobile devices in the workplace has changed record (EMR) systems. They also can respond directly to how business is done. According to a November 2013 study patients’ requests for information. from the technology research and analysis firm Forrester, Workforce Personas and the Mobile App Gap, almost half of the information workforce carries a smartphone to work, Application & Content and 18 percent of workers carry a tablet, numbers that have Management Privacy increased dramatically in recent years. Privacy is a primary consideration for organizations In a late 2013 study, Global State of Enterprise Mobility: deploying mobile device, application and content A Look to the Past, Present & Future, the Enterprise management, especially if mobile devices are also used for Mobility Exchange, an online community for global mobility personal purposes and contain personal content. The role professionals and business leaders, reports that 44 percent that user privacy plays in the growing BYOD movement is of mobile practitioners surveyed have invested in mobile evolving rapidly and has yet to be resolved completely. applications, 40 percent in BYOD programs and 32 percent in Questions abound: What right does an enterprise have mobile management. The study also shows that more than half to monitor a user’s personal device, including personal of organizations surveyed plan to invest at least $250,000 in activities, location movements, contacts, web history, mobility solutions over the next 18 months. social networks, email, application downloads, photos and even bank statements? What right does it have to wipe this Why? More than 70 percent of practitioners cited increased content from the device or create a forensic image when a productivity due to mobile technologies, and almost half security breach has been suspected? How can organizations cited improved operational efficiency. It’s clear that mobile expect users to report device theft or breaches when they devices and applications bring great benefits to organizations, know it might mean that their personal data, applications as well as workers. and photos will be wiped? Mobile devices, applications and wireless connectivity Court decisions and regulations such as the Stored help users stay connected to the office at all times, Communications Act have begun to affect these issues, allowing them to collaborate, participate in decision- but the ultimate result isn’t clear. What is clear is that these issues will have profound implications for mobile security making and handle customer issues from wherever they and management. happen to be. The benefits are increased productivity, enhanced customer relations and faster time to market, all clear competitive advantages in the perpetually Aside from changing the way mobile workers interact accelerating business environment. with their organizations, mobile devices are changing the Aside from collaboration and connectivity to email and social way customers, clients and partners interact with these networks, mobile devices and applications help streamline organizations as well. and accelerate business processes, particularly when mobile Most of these mobile capabilities come not so much from the users employ applications that have direct access to back-end devices themselves but from the applications running on them. enterprise systems and information. It’s these apps that have become so important and so much of Sales and field workers use mobile devices and applications to a differentiator among today’s enterprises, with many hard- keep pace with information such as recent leads, pricing and pressed to keep up with mobile application demand. In fact, job scheduling, as well as to log information directly into back- many enterprises are now taking a “mobile-first” approach 800.800.4239 | CDW.com 3 to new applications and features rather than incorporating and has since expanded to offer management of other devices mobility as an afterthought. as well. And major desktop management vendors, such as LANDesk and Altiris, started integrating MDM capabilities into Mobile IT Challenges their desktop management solutions. Many of these solutions The challenges of incorporating mobility in the enterprise have progressed beyond device management, adding are considerable, especially with the growth of BYOD capabilities to manage mobile applications and content. programs that allow users to mix personal information with Common mobile device management features include: work-related applications and content on the same device. Users are also bringing their own mobile applications and Mobile device discovery and asset management: Most cloud services as well. MDM packages are able to detect new devices attempting to connect to the enterprise network. After devices are With the help of content management software, many users approved, enrolled and provisioned, MDM solutions can are not only accessing back-end email systems, but also monitor and inventory the devices and applications databases and files, possibly leading to sensitive information stored on them. being stored on a personal device. Some users are also taking advantage of consumer-oriented file-sharing and Enrolling and provisioning new devices: Every MDM solution synchronization services such as Box and Google Drive to includes the capability for IT staff to enroll new user devices take their work with them, which can challenge strict security and connect them to the network. Most management policies and regulations. solutions integrate with Microsoft Active Directory and allow users to self-enroll their devices so they don’t have to wait for Unfortunately, mobile devices can be lost or stolen, possibly IT staff to get around to it. IT managers can create the policy, placing the sensitive data they contain in the wrong hands. settings and provisioning profile for each user, and users can Many of the most serious customer data breaches have been quickly enroll devices through an enterprise portal and receive the result of lost or stolen notebooks and mobile devices. their profile and settings, all in a matter of minutes. Further, the use of personal email, applications and web Credential and password management and single browsers can expose an organization to malware, not only sign-on: MDM solutions provide centralized
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